Board of Directors, Australian Independent Schools USA Foundation

Mr Charles R. Grant

Chairman, AIS Board of Directors.

Partner, Boston office of Lexington Partners.

Alumni: Saint Aloysius’ College and Saint Ignatius’ College

Mr Grant grew up in Sydney, Australia and graduated from the University of New South Wales with a BComm (Accounting and Finance) in 1980. He joined KPMG and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983. Later that year, he moved to London and joined the First National Bank of Boston. In 1987, he was transferred to Boston and began a career in private equity, initially in the bank’s LBO lending group and, shortly thereafter, at BancBoston Capital, the bank’s private equity group.

In the early 1990’s, Mr Grant began focusing on the developing secondary market for private equity fund interests. He continued this investment strategy with BancBoston Capital until the end of 2002 when he joined Lexington Partners, one of the largest managers of secondary private equity funds.

Mr Grant is currently a partner in the Boston office of Lexington Partners and is primarily engaged in the origination and evaluation of secondary purchases of buyout mezzanine, and venture capital fund interests.
Mr Grant lives in Boston with his wife and three children.

Mr Peter F. Conway

Mr Conway’s eclectic career includes commercial farming, private school administration, and running Sand Ridge, one of America’s top 100 golf courses. He is currently Partner in a real estate company specializing in the resorts of Kiawah Island and Seabrook, South Carolina, and also owns Turtleco ll, a Property Management Company on Kiawah Island.

Raised in the Midwest, Mr Conway and his family moved to Australia in the 1960’s. He continued his education in the United States and received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College (History and Education). He obtained a Master’s Degree in Education from Cleveland State University.

Mr Conway is past President of the Sandfair Foundation, a family philanthropic institution that primarily supports education and faith based entities. He also currently serves on the Board of the In His Steps Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr Conway and his family live on Kiawah Island, South Carolina.

Mr Ian W. Diery

Board Member

President and Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Scrip, Inc. Director, Timberland Company

Alumni: Newington College

Mr Diery became President and Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Scrip, Inc. in 1997.

Electronic Scrip Incorporated (ESI) is a California-based corporation dedicated to establishing relationships between commerce and community, to provide resources to organisations and projects that support children. ESI introduced the eScrip program in 1999 and has distributed over $250 million to schools and youth organisations across the United States.

Prior to joining ESI, Mr Diery was an Executive Vice President at Apple Computer, Inc, and then a self-employed consultant.

Professor Michael Edye MB, BS, FRACS, FACS

Dr Edye was born in Muswellbrook, NSW in 1953. He graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1977 and completed his surgical training at the Royal North Shore Hospital and Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children.

After practicing surgery on the North Shore of Sydney he undertook fellowship training in Minimally Invasive Abdominal Surgery in Bordeaux, France in 1991 from where he was recruited to The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York in 1993. He practiced in New York for the next twenty years pioneering this new discipline of laparoscopic surgery.

In 2013, he returned as Chair of Surgery in the Clinical School of the University of Western Sydney at Blacktown Mount Druitt Hospital.

Apart from his professional activities, Dr Edye refereed Rugby Union at all levels for 35 years, starting in his teens at Shore controlling schoolboy games, and eventually rising to the Australian International Rugby Referees Panel.

He now practices and teaches surgery in Sydney where he lives with his wife two children.

Mr Douglas T. Elix, AO

Board Member

Retired Senior Vice President and Group Executive, IBM Corporation.

Alumni: St Peters College South Australia

Mr Elix retired from IBM in July 2008. He was Senior Vice President and Group Executive for IBM’s Worldwide Sales and Distribution operations, covering 170 countries and $95 billion of products and services. From 2000 to 2004 he served as Senior Vice President and Group Executive for IBM Global Services where he was responsible for the worldwide operation of IBM’s Services business and its 170,000 professionals.

From 1969 to 2000 he held a number of positions with IBM in Australia and overseas. Mr Elix has served on the Boards of the Australian Information Industries Association and the Australian Institute of Management. He was a member of the Business Council of Australia and a member of the Prime Minister’s National Information Services Council (NISC). He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Bank of Canada for ten years, until retiring in March 2011.

Mr Elix is currently Chairman of the Board of the Australian Independent Schools USA Foundation, a member of the Board of The Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden and is Chairman of the Advance Global Advisory Council.

In June 2006, Mr Elix was awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He and his wife Robin spend their time between New York and Sydney and have four children living in Australia.

Mr Richard Hall

Board Member

Partner in the Corporate Department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Alumni: Wesley College Melbourne, University of Melbourne & Harvard University

Richard Hall is a partner in the Corporate Department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance advice and matters relating to activist defense.

Mr. Hall has been repeatedly cited as one of the country’s leading practitioners in mergers and acquisitions by, among others, Chambers USA, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 United States, The Legal 500 Latin America, IFLR1000, The Best Lawyers in America; and Latin Lawyer. He was named a “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer magazine in 2018 and was recognized by Lawdragon as one of “500 Leading Lawyers in America.” Mr. Hall was also selected as a Mergers & Acquisitions Trailblazer by The National Law Journal.

Mr. Hall was educated at Wesley College in Melbourne and has a B.Com. (Hons) and an LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and an LL.M. from Harvard University.

Mrs Rebecca A. John

Board Member

Partner, New York office of Lexington Partner

Alumni: Williamstown & Westbourne Grammar School

Mrs. John is a partner of Lexington Partners, a leading global alternative investment manager. Mrs. John is primarily engaged in the firm’s fundraising efforts and closely involved in the firm’s relationships with investors.

Prior to joining Lexington in 2001, Mrs. John worked for Merrill Lynch Investment Management in Singapore and Ernst & Young in Singapore and Australia. Mrs. John serves as an Advisory Board member of the Columbia Business School’s Private Equity Program and as a Committee member for The Rockefeller University’s Women & Science initiative.

Mrs. John earned a BCom from the University of Melbourne in 1992, was admitted as an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia in 1995, and earned an MBA from the Columbia Business School in 2001.

Mrs. John grew up in Victoria, Australia and currently resides in New York City with her husband and two children.

Mr Patrick Loftus-Hills

Board Member

Partner and Managing Director Moelis & Company, New York.

Alumni: Xavier College Melbourne; Monash University

Patrick grew up in country Western Australia and Melbourne and graduated in Science and Law from Monash University in 1990. He joined Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) the following year and in 1994 joined the legal department of BHP. In 1998 he joined Macquarie Bank in Sydney as an investment banker before moving to UBS in 2000. He transferred with UBS to New York in 2004 and to Hong Kong in 2007 before returning to New York in 2011 when he joined Moelis & Company.

Patrick is focused on mergers and acquisitions in the metals and mining industry globally and has been involved in most of the significant metals and mining mergers to occur in the industry in the past 20 years.

Patrick is currently a Partner and Managing Director at Moelis & Company, is the Chair of the Monash Global Leaders Network Advisory Committee and Co-Chair of the US Friends of the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Patrick and his husband live in New York.

Dean Richard Southby

Board Member

Distinguished Professor of Global Health and Executive Dean Emeritus and Research Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, The George Washington University Medical Centre, Washington, DC. Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University. Honorary Professor, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Sydney

Alumni: Geelong Grammar

Dean Southby joined The George Washington University faculty in 1979. He had previously been a faculty member at Monash University and The University of Sydney, Australia.

In 1975 he was a full-time Commissioner on the Australian Hospitals and Health Services Commission. At The George Washington University he has served as the Gordon A. Friesen Professor of International Health and Department Chair; Associate Dean for Health Services; Ross Professor of Global Health and Dean of the School of Public Health and Health Services; and Executive Dean and Distinguished Professor of Global Health in the Medical Centre.

As Chairman of the Department of Health Services Management and Policy he was instrumental in establishing the Centre for Health Policy Research and as Dean he implemented the recommendation of the faculty to create the Department of Health Policy.

Dean Southby is Director of the Interagency Institute for Federal Health Care Executives, a continuing education program for senior health care executives from the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, Department of Veterans Affairs and the US Public Health Service; President of the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation and Immediate Past President of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health.

He is also a Board Member and Senior Fellow in the Centre for Australian and New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.